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240 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780966531688
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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You?ve been dying to know: How did punctuation get started? (Monks did it.) Where did ?nerds? come from? (Dr. Seuss.) And what exactly is a checkered past? (A 14th-century French allusion to snowy white and shadowy black chessboard squares.) Langu...
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240 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780966531688
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
Publication date: Not specified
Description
You?ve been dying to know: How did punctuation get started? (Monks did it.) Where did ?nerds? come from? (Dr. Seuss.) And what exactly is a checkered past? (A 14th-century French allusion to snowy white and shadowy black chessboard squares.) Langu...